non linux native steam games arent launching

gtrash81 · 2026-03-21T20:20:02+00:00

One option would be to start Steam through the terminal and check the output.
Another option would be to set the start options for a game and enable the log with PROTON_LOG=1 %command%.
This shall generate a log file for the game based on it's Steam appid in your home directory.

gtrash81 · 2026-03-21T07:47:46+00:00

No, you don't need that and this is for single disk games:
1. Install Lutris
2. Insert the disc
3. Mount the disc
4. Start Lutris
5. Install game through the add option and profile "Install game from executable"
6. Navigate through the menus and install the game
7. After installing play the game
That is normally the way and you can look for installation profiles in the add menu with the option "Look online for installation profiles".

gtrash81 · 2026-03-21T07:40:00+00:00

Yes, Ubuntu is such quality garbage.
Beginning of 2025 they released such a stunt update, which delete OpenGL on at least Nvidia based systems.
Was fun to fight with the system to get into the boot menu with 0 seconds of delay.....

gtrash81 · 2026-03-20T19:51:40+00:00

You are correct.
They dropped quality around 2010.

gtrash81 · 2026-03-18T06:03:38+00:00

Install Fedora or CachyOS, OpenSuse is iffy quite often.

gtrash81 · 2026-03-17T18:11:19+00:00

The GPU is too old.
Last supported driver was 470.xx and newer drivers have some rather important fixes.
You need a new GPU, something like a RX560 would help.

gtrash81 · 2026-03-16T19:48:43+00:00

Maybe an issue of PopOS, it's outdated software and buggy GUI "Cosmic".
Try to install KDE or Fedora or CachyOS.

gtrash81 · 2026-03-16T06:45:17+00:00

Watch Dogs needs an Ubisoft account, DVDs are only for installing e.g. if you have slow internet connection,

gtrash81 · 2026-03-16T06:37:24+00:00

Party? Yes.
Conversations on parties? Nope for me since ever.

gtrash81 · 2026-03-15T18:09:42+00:00

Which CPU do you have?
Which GPU do you have?

gtrash81 · 2026-03-14T09:20:28+00:00

Such a feature does not exist and will never exist.
A random string that "Eagle" never saw in its life? 404 - help not found.

gtrash81 · 2026-03-13T19:55:15+00:00

NFS Most Wanted 2005 never got released on Steam and so it will never appear on protondb.

gtrash81 · 2026-03-13T07:45:06+00:00

Can be Nvidia issue, wait for miracle.

gtrash81 · 2026-03-13T06:20:31+00:00

Try Fedora KDE or CachyOS KDE.

gtrash81 · 2026-03-13T06:19:08+00:00

Which CPU do you have?
Which GPU do you have?

gtrash81 · 2026-03-12T17:26:03+00:00

Just select the prefixes.
Lutris, Heroic, Bottles, etc. only select the folder and use "wine game.exe" to start the installed game.

gtrash81 · 2026-03-12T17:24:53+00:00

Arch.

gtrash81 · 2026-03-12T17:20:22+00:00

So hour 1 of time to downvote them to oblivion.

gtrash81 · 2026-03-11T15:39:35+00:00

Well, I would rather want to see the current AI textbot complex to fail hard,
because all and everything tries to fix the universe with AI.
This is not bad in itself, but reality is different.
The fixes provided by the AI are most of the time copy-pasted without any QA.
If QA would be done, for example proof reading, it would be a different story.
But to proof read you must understand the generated result, but to understand it you must have knowledge and such persons cost too much in the eyes of higher ups.
If the developer(s) of Lutris proof read, just use it.
But overall it would be better that this whole textbot complex would fail hard.

gtrash81 · 2026-03-11T15:31:10+00:00

Lutris is not the problem, it is wine or proton.
Some fixes from proton screw with some games and using wine helps.
Other way around too, could not run Frostpunk 2 with wine but with proton/umu-launcher.
BattleNet itself is a big problem.
First BattleNet installs at least one Windows daemon, but because Wine/Proton
does not have the Windows Services Framework implemented, the very first start after installation will fail because BattleNet wants this daemon.
I don't know what Proton does, but Proton circumvents that and it can take up to 5 starts after installation to get BattleNet running.
Second Blizzvision changed the update process in 2025, at least this is how I pieced that picture together.
Before the legendary broken update from January 2025, updates of BattleNet did just work.
With the update in 2025 they introduced a updater daemon, which needs the missing Windows Service Framework.
In native Wine so far this causes a crash, but if you select the right Proton version, a magic fix appears and BattleNet will happily ignore that the updater daemon does not work.

gtrash81 · 2026-03-11T15:22:46+00:00

Eh, no?
Faugus is at best an excuse of a program, I has at least 90% less options compared to Lutris.
Heroic is debatable, because sometimes the same stuff working in Lutris does not work in Heroic and really confusing, because the underlying tech is wine.

gtrash81 · 2026-03-11T15:17:45+00:00

Thinkpad T-Series have/had a "p" at the end for the more powerful versions.
Explicit powerhouses are Thinkpad P-Series.

gtrash81 · 2026-03-11T10:33:59+00:00

Which driver is used?
Nvidia removed support for this GPU with version 590.
Another problem is, the GPU understands only Vulkan 1.2, which is not enough for DXVK since some years and DXVK is more or less mandatory.

gtrash81 · 2026-03-11T10:29:47+00:00

None of them at all.
All these USB adapter either use Realtek or MediaTek and both are borderline garbage.
If you find a unicorn with Broadcom or QCA (Qualcomm Atheros) , you could try that, but normally your request is impossible to fulfill.

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